Burlington, Wyoming
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Central Big Horn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82411. The Survey maps it on the Burlington quadrangle. 314 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,436 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBurlington grew from 288 to 314 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 288 | |
| 2020 | 314 | +26 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1951 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Cody quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Cody quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Cody quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Basin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
21 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Burlington between 1995 and 2020, burning about 411 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Wind River / Bighorn Basin District | BIG WINDY |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wind River / Bighorn Basin District | COYOTE |
| 7 September 2020 | Smoking | 50 acres | Bighorn County | GRASS FIRE |
| 4 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Bighorn County | B HILL BARROW DITCH FIRE |
| 18 August 2011 | Natural | 16 acres | Worland Field Office | DRY CREEK |
| 8 July 2018 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Bighorn County | EMBLEM BENCH LIGHTNING STRIKE |
| 4 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Cody Field Office | TABLE |
| 31 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 39 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burlington in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 9 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burlington | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Burlington | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Burlington. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Burlington | - | A trained spotter estimated penny sized hail in Burlington. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Burlington | - | Quarter sized hail fell in Burlington. |
| June 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Burlington | - | The public reported a funnel cloud with a thunderstorm west of Otto. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Burlington | - | Hail of quarter to half dollar size fell at a ranch southeast of Burlington. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Burlington | - | A tornado touched down 1.5 miles northwest of Burlington. The tornado moved east for 10 miles before dissipating 4 miles north of Otto. This tornado formed over open country without damage, therefore it was rated as F0. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Burlington | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Burlington | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Burlington | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Burlington | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Burlington | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Lightning | Burlington | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emblem | 4.6 miles | 7 | |
| Otto | 8.9 miles | 7 | |
| Hewitt Place | 14.7 miles | 7 | |
| Sales Place | 18.6 miles | 7 | |
| Greybull | 20.1 miles | 7 | |
| Basin | 21.4 miles | 7 | |
| Byron | 24.4 miles | 7 | |
| Lovell | 27.0 miles | 9 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Burlington | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1029106 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597239. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.




